N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Priority number two is team building and talent management. Did you bestow the title upon yourself simply because you had the authority to do so, or are you the right person for the job? What does a CEO really do anyway?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. While job changes can be a powerful catalyst for development, they can also lead to the derailment of a promising high potential leader. There are inherent risks and pitfalls that can be avoided or need to be managed.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? What do you think?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Resist the temptation to just advance a broad number of disparate initiatives, and alternatively focus your efforts on the completion of a few high impact objectives. The simple reality is that if you continue to add new responsibilities to an already full plate, all of your obligations will suffer as a result.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] Taariq Lewis Hi Mike: As always, a great blog. I will be curating again, soon. A blog post?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 12, 2011

It is the resistance they provide which builds the muscle - as long as the possessor of the muscles is willing to work against that resistance. I used to get angry, then ignore, for awile act as though they don't exist; however, that might be worse As you say the resistance makes us better. Therein lies the key.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Here’s a guide to managing a rapidly expanding business…. Think About Finances. As more and more factors are added to your cash flow, you need to make it a priority to understand and manage those factors, and eventually manage all your income and outgoings with a “big picture” mindset. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

In matrix organizations, leaders suddenly find themselves having to master the challenges of managing cross-divisional, international teams over whom they have little formal authority. Empathy, on the other hand, enables leaders to develop a better understanding of their counterparts' perspectives and their customers' mindset.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

Children ask for stories to be told them but resist direct instruction. We remember what we see much better than what we merely hear. All these and more speak to the fact that communication is almost always best when aligned with the natural human tendency to think and learn in terms of stories.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Since people don't like to be told what to do and will generally resist being bossed around, something must happen to convince them to allow what would normally and naturally be considered contrary to their best interest. The camels, however, resisted this fact. Here's how it works.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Resist this temptation. An action plan might involve joining a health club, working out three to four times a week, and managing your caloric intake. Now, I am not a weight management specialist. We want to loose weight, build muscle, stop a bad habit, improve in this area, move ahead in that. Focus is the key. So far so good.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? In the absence of formal structures, managers in the new roles scout for social and environmental initiatives that enhance the organization’s reputation, but they can put forward only a very limited range of sustainability initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

One of senior management's favorite pastimes is moving around the boxes — and the people inside them. Most managers do reorganize with good intentions — to grow revenues, reduce costs, improve customer focus, etc. It's the same with reorganizations: The established patterns for getting things done have been rearranged.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

That fits Jack Dorsey, who became Twitter’s first CEO after playing the role of lead engineer as the product was being developed within co-founder Evan Williams’ previous company Odeo. Williams, who previously had sold Blogger to Google, later took the reins and managed the company for two to three years. Sound like anyone you know?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2018

The to-do list can be an indispensable tool when used to mindfully manage your time. Time is a finite resource, but people rarely budget their time with anywhere near the rigor they apply to their finances. jennifer maravillas for hbr. But used indiscriminately, you become its servant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S. Maybe a brand manager is moved to a different department, but little else changes – the same consultants are hired, the same “best practices” are pursued – and organization itself rarely actually learns. What builds management perspectives?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Mexico was asked to develop an economic adjustment program in exchange for a "jumbo loan" put together by the banks, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2017

Interestingly, individuals working in customer service, sales, production, logistics and R&D were more likely to feel that bureaucracy was growing than those working in functions like HR, finance, planning, purchasing, and administration. Bureaucracy is a time trap. Bureaucracy frustrates innovation. Bureaucracy breeds inertia.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Health Leadership development' That, after all, is what the best leaders do.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting firm. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Our survey, in fact, showed that early AI adopters have primarily bought the right fit-for-purpose technology solutions, with only a minority of respondents both developing and implementing all AI solutions in-house. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

” A new clinical model based on an advanced illness-management program one of us (Brad) developed at Sutter Health, an integrated system in Northern California, demonstrates how to increase quality while dramatically reducing costs. One blind patient said, “The nurse case manager went with me and stayed through it all.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. The particular brand of investing that Ackman and a small number of other hedge-fund managers practice is best described as medium-term. Boards Competition Finance' I''m not joining in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. Since the skills for developing power projects were not existent in the country, we had to bring much of this talent in from the outside.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers.

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